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EP0841547A2
EP0841547A2 EP97114102A EP97114102A EP0841547A2 EP 0841547 A2 EP0841547 A2 EP 0841547A2 EP 97114102 A EP97114102 A EP 97114102A EP 97114102 A EP97114102 A EP 97114102A EP 0841547 A2 EP0841547 A2 EP 0841547A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J31/00—Apparatus for making beverages
    • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
    • A47J31/46—Dispensing spouts, pumps, drain valves or like liquid transporting devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J31/00—Apparatus for making beverages
    • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
    • A47J31/4403—Constructional details
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J31/00—Apparatus for making beverages
    • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
    • A47J31/52—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus
    • A47J31/525—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus the electronic control being based on monitoring of specific process parameters
    • A47J31/5255—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus the electronic control being based on monitoring of specific process parameters of flow rate
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F1/00—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow
    • G01F1/05—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using mechanical effects
    • G01F1/06—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using mechanical effects using rotating vanes with tangential admission
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F15/00—Details of, or accessories for, apparatus of groups G01F1/00 - G01F13/00 insofar as such details or appliances are not adapted to particular types of such apparatus
    • G01F15/18—Supports or connecting means for meters
    • G01F15/185—Connecting means, e.g. bypass conduits

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  • the invention relates to a flow meter for measuring the flow rates of liquids, in particular for beverages, such as coffee, espresso or the like, in particular for a device for preparing beverages, such as a coffee or espresso machine, with an upper and lower part existing measuring housing with inlet and outlet nozzle and a measuring body arranged in the interior of the housing for determining the flow of the liquid, the outlet nozzle being fixed to the upper part of the measuring housing.
  • a generic flow meter is known from DE-GM 87 07 150.
  • the opening of the outlet port is arranged on an end face of the housing above the measuring wing of a vane measuring wheel representing the measuring body, so that no air bubbles can form in the area of the vane measuring wheel, which impede the rotation of the wheel and thus lead to measurement inaccuracies. This occurs in particular by vacuuming the storage tank and immediately refilling it.
  • Such a flow meter basically works Sufficiently accurate and satisfactory, since when the liquid is supplied again, the air can escape from the measuring device immediately and reliably through the outlet arranged on the end face.
  • the upper part of the housing and thus also the outlet connector on the measuring device are fixed by screwing the upper part onto the lower part.
  • the screw connections are arranged in such a way that the upper housing part and thus the outlet connector can only be fixed in a fixed position on the lower housing part.
  • the suction pump to be connected to the outlet nozzle for supplying the liquid to a water heater of a coffee or espresso machine can, however, have its inlet in different machines, for example in order to save space, in different positions relative to the measuring device.
  • either the hose connecting the suction pump and the outlet connector must be angled, which can have an adverse effect on the liquid delivery, or different measuring devices with differently arranged outlet connectors must be available so that they can then be connected to the machine via the hose.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a measuring device of the type mentioned at the outset, in which the outlet connector can be fixed simply and reliably in different directions on the measuring device without reducing the measuring accuracy.
  • the above-mentioned object is achieved by a flow meter of the type mentioned at the outset in that the upper and lower parts are releasably connectable to one another by means of a bayonet lock in such a way that the outlet connecting pieces are offset symmetrically from one another in four Positions can be arranged on the measuring housing. Accordingly, the upper part can be easily detached from the lower part and simply snapped back onto the lower part of the measuring housing by appropriately aligning the outlet connector. Since most housings are circular or square in their cross-section, the necessary alignment with respect to the inlet of the suction pump and thus the machine can be achieved in such flowmeters simply by rotating the upper housing part and thus the outlet nozzle, without bending the connecting hose with the associated disadvantages is necessary. At the same time, the advantage of an arrangement of the outlet in the upper housing part with respect to air escaping into the device is retained, as a result of which the measurement accuracy is retained.
  • the inlet connection is preferably arranged in a stationary manner on the lower part of the measuring housing.
  • the outlet port can be aligned in different positions with respect to the inlet of the suction pump, which in particular can contribute to a space-saving arrangement of the liquid container, measuring device, suction pump and subsequent coffee or espresso machine.
  • the bayonet catch is formed in a further development on the lower housing part by four symmetrically arranged, radially projecting hooks which can be inserted into corresponding snap-in receptacles of the upper part to close the housing.
  • the hooks can protrude radially outwards or inwards.
  • the hooks are preferably arranged to extend radially outward on the peripheral edge of the lower housing part.
  • the snap-in recordings are for this purpose on the inside of a peripheral on The upper housing part encircling, downwardly directed edge formed radially inwardly projecting projections which are laterally limited in the same direction of rotation, the closing direction, of the upper housing part by stops. Due to this four-fold arrangement and design of the hooks and snap-in receptacles, an optimal rotation of the upper housing part and thus of the outlet connector is ensured.
  • Such hooks can also be easily and reliably arranged on the square or circular lower housing part.
  • the hooks preferably taper on their underside in the same direction of rotation, the closing direction of the bayonet lock, reducing their axial height.
  • the latching receptacles For latching within the latching receptacles, they have on their underside essentially radially extending, axially projecting pegs which interact with receptacles of the latching receptacles which are complementary thereto.
  • the receptacles are preferably recesses formed on the top of the projections. These are essentially channel-shaped and are designed for reliable latching and thus closing of the bayonet catch in the region of the ends of the projections facing away from the stops.
  • the outlet opening is arranged above the measuring body. Accordingly, there is no influence on the measurement of the flow rate through the measuring body, which can conventionally be a vane measuring wheel.
  • the outlet opening is also arranged laterally close to the longitudinal center axis of the measuring housing. In this way, on the one hand, when using a vane measuring wheel as the measuring body, the air can escape quickly, since the entering liquid collects on the outer circumference of the housing due to centrifugal forces and the remaining air is pressed inwards.
  • the arrangement and alignment of the outlet opening with respect to the measuring body is not changed even when the upper housing part is rotated, so that there is no impairment of the measuring accuracy.
  • the inlet and outlet ports are arranged horizontally parallel to one another to the side of the measuring housing.
  • the connecting hose which consists, for example, of silicone, can also be fixed horizontally on the outlet connection and there is no need to bend the hose, which could result in kinks which would impair the suction. Due to its horizontal arrangement, the piece of hose can then also yield to very high suction pressure by pulling the hose together, so that not all of the negative pressure is exerted on the pump, and expands again to its full passage width due to its inherent elasticity in the pump's pump breaks due to its inherent elasticity and so sucks up more and more liquid from the flow meter. Since there are no kinks here, the suction pressure on the flow meter is made more uniform or the pressure ripple in the area of the flow meter is reduced.
  • the flow measuring device 1 shown in FIG. 1 for measuring the flow of liquids for a device for preparing beverages, in particular a coffee or espresso machine has a housing 4 consisting of an upper housing part 2 and a lower housing part 3, which is provided by means of a housing in FIG. 1 Bayonet lock, not shown, are releasably attachable to each other.
  • a measuring body (not shown), in particular an impeller, is centrally rotatably mounted on a bearing pin 27 and is set in rotation by the liquid flowing through the lower part 3 of the measuring housing 4 and thus causes the measurement via measuring electronics .
  • permanent magnets are used, for example, on the rotatably mounted impeller via which a voltage is generated inductively when the impeller rotates (for example, via a coil in the upper part 2), the size of which is given by the rotational speed of the impeller as a measure of the flow through the housing 4 is. Or the measurement is carried out using Hall ICs using the Hall effect.
  • a plug connection 5 with preferably three plug-in tongues 6, 6 ', 6 "is attached to the top, in particular on the front of the upper part 2.
  • One of these plug-in tongues 6 "serves as a positive pole for supply, another 6 'as a negative pole and ground and the third 6 as a signal output for forwarding the measured signal.
  • elements 7, 8 are arranged to fix the measuring device 1 on a holder 9 (FIG. 2).
  • the setting can be done via appropriately trained clamping discs.
  • an O-ring is provided, which can be placed on the top 20 (FIG. 3) of the cylinder wall of the lower part 3 of the housing, surrounded by an outer edge 21 on the outside of the housing 4.
  • the upper housing part 2 has (see FIG. 7) a downwardly extending annular projection 22, by means of which the upper part 2 can be inserted essentially frictionally into the cup-shaped cavity 23 of the lower housing part 3.
  • the O-ring is then on the side of the attachment, enclosing it.
  • the neck 22 is provided with three symmetrically arranged stowage ribs 24.
  • a likewise pot-shaped cavity 25 is formed within the ring-shaped extension 22 and serves to receive the upper part of the measuring body.
  • a circumferential, downwardly extending edge 17 is provided peripherally on the upper housing part 2 and surrounds the lower housing part 3 after it has been placed thereon.
  • an inlet connector 10 which is fixed laterally on the lower housing part 3 and runs horizontally. About this, its inside diameter In the direction of the cavity 25 reducing inlet connector 10 (see Figure 3), the liquid coming from a liquid container 11 ( Figure 2) flows perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the impeller into the housing 1.
  • an outlet connection 12 is fixed, the opening 26 of which is arranged laterally above the measuring body in the interior of the housing 4 but closely adjacent to the longitudinal central axis L of the measuring housing 4 (FIG. 1).
  • the outlet connector 12 runs through the cover 18 of the upper housing part 2, at least half embedded in the upper housing part 2, at 90 ° relative to the longitudinal central axis L, with the inner diameter remaining constant, in order to run horizontally parallel to the inlet connector 10 laterally of the housing 4. While the outlet connector 12 is arranged closely adjacent to the longitudinal central axis L, the inlet connector 10 is laterally offset from the longitudinal central axis L on the housing 4 so that the liquid can flow into the housing 4 almost tangentially to the measuring wings of the measuring body.
  • the outlet connection 12 is connected (FIG. 2) to a vacuum pump 14 via a flexible connection, such as a silicone hose 13.
  • a treatment device for the liquid such as a continuous flow heater for a coffee or espresso machine, can then be connected to this.
  • the lower housing part 3 has four symmetrically arranged, radially outwardly projecting hooks 16a-d which can be seen in FIGS. 3 and 4a and 4b and which engage in corresponding snap-in receptacles 15a-d of the upper housing part 2 (FIGS. 5-7), so that by rotating the lower part 3 and upper part 2 to each other a bayonet-like closing takes place.
  • the latching receptacles 15a-d are formed by four projections 28a-d, each of which protrudes radially inward symmetrically on the inside of the edge 17 and is spaced apart from the cover 18 of the upper housing part 2, each laterally in the same direction of rotation of the upper housing part 2, the closing direction are limited by a stop 29. Between the projections 28a-d, which are evenly spaced from one another, insertion openings 32 are formed, by means of which the hooks 16a-d can be inserted into the latching receptacles 15a-d.
  • the latching receptacles 15a-d are delimited at the top by the housing cover 18, so that a stop is formed upwards when the hooks 16a-d are inserted.
  • openings 30 are formed in the cover 18 above the projections.
  • the openings 30 extend in the circumferential direction beyond the end of the projections 28a-d, so that when the upper housing part 2 is placed on the lower part 3, a gap 31 remains which is only closed to the outside when the hooks 16a-d are locked.
  • the projections 28a-d are each provided with a radially extending recess 34 on their upper side.
  • the hooks 16a-d can engage in the recesses 34 in a latching manner with pins 35 of complementary design.
  • the pins 35 are formed on the underside 36 of the hooks in the form of a bead and likewise extend in the radial direction.
  • the hooks 16a-d decrease in the closing direction of the closure their axial height. This is done by tapering on the underside 36 in the direction of rotation. This simplifies the insertion of the hooks 16a-d into the latching receptacles 15a-d.
  • the upper housing part 2 with the outlet connector 12 arranged thereon can be easily detached from the lower housing part 3, as can be seen from FIGS. 8-11, around the outlet connector 12 in different positions, each at 90 ° to one another are offset to align.

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DK0841547T3 (da) 2005-05-23
ES2236771T3 (es) 2005-07-16
PT841547E (pt) 2005-05-31
EP0841547A3 (fr) 2000-08-30
ATE287525T1 (de) 2005-02-15

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